I have been remiss! After all, the name of this blog is “Marta’s Melodies,” and I haven’t even mentioned a song in over a month! So your challenge this time is to guess the title, artist, and album of the song I referenced in this blog title. (No Googling!! Play fair! ) The first person [...]

Camille Boley, our guest blogger this week, is a delightful woman. She shines her bright smile and shares her many talents with all around her. Her family consists of herself, her husband, and her two children. She has a gorgeous singing voice and a deep faith. She tells us this week of her journey “back [...]

The month before our girl/boy twins would turn one year old, our daughter became very ill. She, who naturally was very active (my sister even said she was my dancer while Lis was yet in the womb), became listless & would lie down for hours at a time. By the end of the week, my [...]

Yesterday, I was helping with a service activity. There were many people who I only knew through service experiences we have shared. We accomplished what we needed to accomplish, and I was waiting for a family member who had a few other things to get done. I was sitting on a sofa in the foyer. [...]

This is the part where you see my name attached to a blog and go…”Who are you again?”  But instead of making excuses, I’m just going to blog about it I am a self-described “uber-perfectionist,” and that attribute of my personality sometimes gets in my way a little bit.  As an example, for some reason, I [...]

I am amazed how words flow freely from my mind to my fingertips when I am writing in a creative mood.  It can be early in the morning or late at night when I feel those creative juices running.  How I am creative can come in a number of ways: words, colors, or textures are [...]

April Rice is our guest blogger this week.  She has lived in the South but went to college in freezing Idaho.  Her kind spirit and bright smile bless all with whom she comes in contact, especially her husband and her family.  Professionally, she has taught for several years in Florida and Mississippi.  Here she shares [...]

I wrote on my Facebook this past week that I feel like this new year is a package I am waiting to open.  This positive energy I am feeling has already been a gift for the coming year–a compilation of my deliberate desires and practice to be more optimistic over the last year.  My efforts [...]

So, yesterday I didn’t write my blog like I usually do on Wednesday. It wasn’t that I didn’t try. In fact I had been trying for two days to think of something worth writing in a blog, but the words simply didn’t come. I couldn’t think of anything inspiring to share with you or words that [...]

The start of a new year. We now begin again. A fresh view at life, a fresh start, a new beginning—all of these phrases have been used to describe a new year. We make goals and plans and look forward to great views of that which is to come: the beginning of a new year. [...]